Uncle Rico

Oh, the symbolism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Jamal Crossover. Can listen to him.

Taken from @occupyflorida on IG: "350 Action erected a statue of Ron DeSantis that melted into a skeleton in protest of his recent signing of an anti-environmental bill." Creative use of chemistry!

A year before Buddhist monks from Japan and Sri Lanka gathered at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair, photographs of Buddhist practitioners were already circulating in America—sometimes in surprising places, like packages of roasted coffee beans. 🧵 🗃️ #Japan

Six months ago:

Today we're honored to publish two short excerpts from the upcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968, alongside a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. proteanmag.com/2026/10/07/p...

She turned it on herself and her water bowl is already full. IG: @charlieeandlaylaa

This is my favorite one so far! 🤣🤣🤣

Morning Kittens

Do you know how dumb and incompetent you have to be to make *amy klobuchar* look good?

The Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History from @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

What are we going to do about our billionaire problem?

At state dinners in China, it's proper to tell the waiter, "I'll have what Xi's having."

“Sir, they’re making memes about you making paintings about them making memes about 9/11”

Fetidturdman is a joke. What a big oafish dope.

"Codicological genomes". Not a term I expected to hear, but I guess it will become part of the medievalist vocabulary now. Great summary of an intriguing study. (And no, fellow codicologists, you still do not have to wear gloves. The DNA in your books is too degraded to do any damage.) #MedievalSky

“Fear Mongols” was actually what Genghis Khan called his army

The study used cycling-trip data in Montreal and combined it with street-level imagery to understand why cyclists choose particular routes. It challenges the idea that good infrastructure is the most determining element when choosing a cycling route. Read it here: buff.ly/z2MvIKL

OMG people catch on already: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bad-weather

Historians Reveal Terra-Cotta Army Result Of Perfectionist Sculptor Screwing Up Soldier Statue Thousands Of Times https://theonion.com/historians-reveal-terra-cotta-army-result-of-perfection-1846260221/

🎉 Happy 15th Birthday, Dutch Cycling Embassy! Founded 15 years ago with one mission: cycling for everyone, everywhere. Since then: ThinkBike workshops worldwide, 500+ study visits, countless events, and 100+ partners driving Dutch cycling excellence. Thanks to everyone cycling with us!

Truly Incredible, good job London! London’s Cycleway network has reached a major new milestone, growing to 450km! This is longer than the entire Tube network and further than the distance from London to Paris, making London’s Cycleway network five times larger than it was in 2016!

Enes Kanter would have made that layup. Maybe.

SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

Slow clap for this Amtrak passenger

Oh, what a shot by Miles!

Opened this year and located in Beijing’s Changping District, China’s first multi-storey bike parking facility serves one of the capital’s busiest stations, with 95,000 passengers per day. The Utrecht-inspired designed accommodates up to 8,000 bikes, e-bikes and shared bikes. READ: buff.ly/3XOl6sd

I met this fully-grown bovine on RAGBRAI. So adorable.

Happy #Caturday

At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

Mongol Empire fan expo: GhengisCon

Yo quiero Taco Bell

Paramedics Successfully Rolled Him Back On To His Feet

Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?

CCP: What are those cookies she keeps mashing up? We don’t have them here in our country.

Norway doing ok on the world stage of sport lately. Thor Haaland rowing the Ormen Lange; Torstein Traeen in yellow in Le Tour de France.

Ant: "So, where are you from?" Messi: “Argentina.” Ant: “Shit sounds wack.”

they've finally built a robot that can perform at the level of USA soccer athletes

Mexico: died with honor US: [yakkity sax]

No way the US was going to win this match. But imagine the massacre if the US were to face Spain, which has not given up a single goal in the WC/

Absolute trash. What a stupid team.